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Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England — Frederic William Maitland

Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

Frederic William Maitland

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 654 pages

Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England is a classic historical study by Frederic William Maitland. In three essays, Maitland uses Domesday Book and other sources to examine landholding, village communities and social change in England before and after the Norman Conquest. It is worth listening to for insight into medieval English law and society.

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DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYOND
THREE ESSAYS
IN THE
EARLY HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
C. F. CLAY, Manager.
London: FETTER LANE, E.C.
Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET.
ALSO
London: STEVENS AND SONS, Ltd., 119 and 120, CHANCERY
LANE.
Leipzig: P. A. BROCKHAUS.
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN & CO. Ltd.
[All rights reserved.]
DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYOND

THREE ESSAYS

IN THE

EARLY HISTORY OF ENGLAND

BY

FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND, LL.D.

FORMERLY DOWNING PROFESSOR OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

OF LINCOLN’S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

CAMBRIDGE:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

1907

First Edition 1897.

Reprinted 1907.

PREFACE.

The greater part of what is in this book was written in order that it might be included in the History of English Law before the Time of

Edward I. which was published by Sir Frederick Pollock and me in the year 1895. Divers reasons dictated a change of plan. Of one only need

I speak. I knew that Mr Round was on the eve of giving to the world

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Contents

  1. Transcriber’s Note
  2. DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYOND
  3. PREFACE.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. ESSAY I. DOMESDAY BOOK.
  6. § 1. Plan of the Survey.
  7. § 2. The Serfs.
  8. § 3. The Villeins.
  9. § 4. The Sokemen.
  10. § 5. Sake and soke.
  11. § 6. The Manor.
  12. § 7. Manor and Vill.
  13. § 8. The Feudal Superstructure.
  14. § 9. The Boroughs.
  15. ESSAY II. ENGLAND BEFORE THE CONQUEST.
  16. § 1. Book-land and the Land-book.
  17. § 2. Book-land and Folk-land.
  18. § 3. Sake and Soke.
  19. § 4. Book-land and Loan-land.
  20. § 5. The Growth of Seignorial Power.
  21. § 6. The Village Community.
  22. ESSAY III. THE HIDE.
  23. § 1. Measures and Fields.
  24. § 2. Domesday Statistics.
  25. § 3. Beyond Domesday.
  26. INDEX.
  27. NOTES
  28. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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